Raddle #327MIT Mystery Hunt

From PUZZLE to FACTORY

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Sat, January 17, 2026
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PUZZLE
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Clues, out of order

________ PUZZLE has been eight years old for almost eighty years
PUZZLE ________s, a breakfast food
PUZZLE ________s, insect genus that includes over 1000 species
A ________ PUZZLE has many pieces
American icon PUZZLE ________
Change one letter in PUZZLE to get a kind of tag
Counterpart to one’s PUZZLE
Profession who would own and use a PUZZLE
Relation that sounds like "PUZZLE", to some
Reverse PUZZLE and add a letter to get a 20th century TV show
Titular thing won by PUZZLE

About this Raddle

In 2023, teammate's hunt started with a round of puzzles supposedly written by AI. Soon we revealed a hidden Puzzle Factory, full of rejected, chaotic AIs, whose puzzle-writing was … a bit erratic. Teams were tasked with fixing up the factory. TTBNL found the coin and won the hunt.

Theme: MIT Mystery Hunt

This weekend is the annual MIT Mystery Hunt, the largest puzzle hunt of the year. I'll be there participating with my team, Palindrome. Our team most recently won the hunt in 2021, and as a prize/punishment we were tasked with writing the following year's hunt. In honor of the event, here are some Raddles based on themes from recent years' hunts.